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1. Scatter more or, less. 2. Store 

 some. Not profitable. -^P. H. Elwood. 



1. Stay in the hive, as a rule. 2. 

 Some, but in a very discouraged way. — 

 J. H. Lakrabee. 



1. They would be likely to scatter 

 around. 2. It is doubtful if they would. 

 — J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. I think they would leave, as I have 

 seen swarms do in early spring that had 

 no queen. — Jas. A. Stone. 



They would stay and work until they 

 died of old age, then the worms would 

 destroy the combs. — E. France. 



1. They will stay in the hive. 2. 

 They will store honey, but will be rob- 

 bed in a short time. — H. D. Cutting. 



I have never tried this, and can only 

 guess what would happen. Better try 

 it, and report results in the Bee Jour- 

 nal. — C. H. Dibbern. 



1. They would not all abandon the 

 hive unless they were robbed or had no 

 honey. 2. They would not be apt to 

 store much honey. — G. L. Tinker. 



1. Yes, they would stay at home. 2. 

 Yes, if there was nectar to be gathered, 

 but they would soon dwindle out in the 

 working season. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



1. They would stay. 2. I was not 

 aware that bees quit their "job," and 

 went into mourning for a queen. Mine 

 don't — they keep at work. — A.B.Mason. 



1. They would stay in the hive. 2. 

 They would go to work, but not in the 

 brisk condition that they would if the 

 conditions were normal. — J. P. H.Brown. 



1. They would stay in the hive. 2. 

 They would store honey tolerably well, 

 and that without devoting' even two or 

 three days to mourning. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. They would stick to the hive. 2. 

 No, they are hopelessly queenless, and 

 seem to be wholly discouraged. Such a 

 colony will do practically no work. — A. 

 J. Cook. 



Bees v/ithout a queen, or the means of 

 rearing one, are discouraged, and mani- 

 fest little interest in life, knowing by 

 instinct that their "time is short." — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. Much would depend ; they might 

 not, sometimes they do one thing, and 

 sometimes the other. 2. I have known 

 them to do so : ordinarily I do not think 

 they would. — J. E. Pond. 



1. Sometimes they would, and some- 

 times they wouldn't. 2. If they staid, 

 they would use their opportunities for 

 storing, without waiting two or three 

 days to mourn. — C. C. Miller. 



1. I am sure I cannot tell. I can see 

 no reason why any one should treat a 

 colony of bees in this way. 2. I do not 

 think they would. Try it, and then you 

 will know.— Emerson T. Abbott. 



1. They would stay in the hive, but 

 would do little work, and would rapidly 

 dwindle away. 2. They would get along 

 much better if allowed some brood, or 

 even a single queen-cell. — J. A. Green. 



1. They would run all over the hive 

 and fly around, looking for their queen, 

 or "scatter around," as you put it. 2. 

 Yes, to a certain extent, but not as 

 much as they would have done had the 

 queen been left with them. — G. M. Dog- 

 little. 



1. They wonld likely stay, especially 

 if they were Italians. 2. Yes, some. 

 All colonies would not act alike. Some 

 will not store much honey even with a 

 young queen in prospect, until they get 

 her; others will work well while rearing 

 a queen. — S. I. Freeborn. 



1. They would probably stay. 2. I 

 know a case of this kind. A bee-tree 

 was cut in the early summer, the bees 

 were put into a hive, but the queen was 

 killed. The dead queen was suspended 

 in the hive against the cover. The bees 

 filled the hive one-third full of comb and 

 honey. — M. Mahin. 



1. Some irritable bees will swarm out, 

 but they usually return and assume the 

 same attitude of other queenless bees. 2. 

 Yes, they store honey, butprqbably with 

 not as much vim as with a laying queen, 

 but usually they store more honey, as 

 none is used in brood-rearing. But some- 

 how I never did gain much by caging 

 queens during a harvest. — Mrs. Jennie 

 Atchley. 



When treated in this way they show 

 great excitement for several days, but 

 they will generally submit to the inevit- 

 able, and in some cases they will store 

 honey rapidly— if nectar is abundant — 

 and in other cases they will do but little 

 good. But if you will give them a bit of 

 comb containing young larvai to build 

 queeen-cells, they will work all right. — 

 G. W. Demaree. 



"The Honey-Bee: Its Natural 

 History, Anatomy and Physiology," is the 

 title of the book written by Thos. Wm. 

 Cowan, editor of the British Bee Journal. It 

 is bound in cloth, beautifully illustrated, 

 and very interesting. Price, $1.00, post- 

 paid ; or we club it with the Bee Journal 

 one year for $1.65. We have only three of 

 these books left. 



